Pen And Sword Aviation imprint: 304 books
Flying into the Flames of Hell
Flying with Bomber Command in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
The book contains twenty-three stirring accounts of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two was really like. The writers are a mixed bunch of pilots, navigators and gunners who flew medium and heavy bombers or Mosquitoes. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target,...
Bomber Commander
Don Saville DSO, DFC - 'The Mad Australian
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Wing Commander Donald Teale Saville DSO, DFC joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1927. From 1932 until 1939 he flew and tested private aircraft, was a flying instructor and then a Captain-pilot with Australian National Airways. In 1936, at the age of 36 years, he volunteered for the RAF whilst...
100 Group (Bomber Support)
RAF Bomber Command in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Norfolk.
The growing importance of the 'electronic war' in the air in 1943 caused the creation of 100 Group to fly both defensive and offensive sorties employing highly secret...
1st Air Division 8th Air Force USAAF 1942-45
Flying Fortress Squadrons in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.
Constituted as the lst Bombardment Division on 30 August 1943 the unit was activated at Brampton Grange, Huntingdon on 13...
Dinghy Drop
279 Squadron RAF 1941 - 46
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
September 1941 approval was given for the formation of two long-range Air-Sea Rescue squadrons. No 279 Squadron was formed at Bircham Newton in Norfolk. In the period leading up to the formation of the squadron there had been much work done in relation to air-dropped survival equipment such as the...
by Tony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
American Eagles provides a photographic snapshot of the lives of the American fighter pilots who volunteered their services during World War II, as well as the Spitfires and Hurricanes they flew. Keen to help Britain stem the spread of Fascism, or perhaps seeking adventure in a foreign land, a number...
The Desert Air Force in World War II
Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became known. It was formed in North Africa to support the 8th Army and included squadrons from the RAF, SAAF, RAAF and eventually the USAAF. The book includes descriptions...
by Bowman, Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The Wooden Wonder was probably the most versatile combat aircraft that operated on all fronts in World War Two and was still giving valuable service in first-line service after 1945 when it enjoyed a limited renaissance both at home, in Germany and abroad until the advent of jet aircraft. Martin Bowmans...
by Jon Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
In June 1948, Joseph Stalin halted all road and rail traffic in to and out of the Allied sector of Berlin and cut off all electricity to the city. The only route into Berlin was by means of three twenty-mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet zone of Germany. Thus the wartime allies of Britain,...
Sniper of the Skies
The Story of George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, DFM
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory. George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, and DFM, certainly achieved more victories than most...
The Armed Rovers
Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
By far the most dangerous of the RAF operations during the Second World War were daylight attacks on enemy shipping, yet little has been written about this aerial campaign and the brave airmen who took part. In particular the intense air-sea battles that were fought in the Mediterranean have been...
Shot Down
The Secret Diary of One POW's Long March to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Alex Kerr's Wellington, a twin-engine bomber, was shot down over Germany in 1941. At first hospitalised with hopes of repatriation, he unexpectedly found himself a prisoner in a German POW camp. Throughout those trying four years he was held captive, Alex kept a secret diary. This book reproduces...
Flying in Defiance of the Reich
A Lancaster Pilots Rites of Passage
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilized in August 1939 and after training became operational on 233 Squadron Coastal Command flying Hudsons from Leuchars, Aldergrove and St Eval. After fourteen months...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
"It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders." Hermann Göring
This is the history of the Luftwaffe through the eyes of those who served in combat. The rise of the Luftwaffe from the...